Changing the subject, Su Yuqing said, "If you can truly take second place, this Palace will fulfill every promise made to you before."
Lu Ye frowned, catching the meaning beneath her words. "What if I can't take second place?"
Su Yuqing said leisurely, "Then you and your senior sister will remain in this division for a hundred years!"
That was not what they had agreed upon! Originally, Lu Ye merely had to participate in the Black Abyss Martial Competition, with no other conditions attached. Yet Su Yuqing was saying this now, clearly because she still harbored resentment.
This was beginning to smell like settling a personal score under the guise of public duty.
Haitang vaguely sensed that something was wrong and wanted to plead for Lu Ye, but she had barely opened her mouth when Su Yuqing snapped at her, "You, shut up!"
Haitang promptly fell silent. She found it strange, unsure whether it was merely her imagination, but her master seemed odd today. Especially her attitude toward Junior Brother Lu—it seemed different from before, even the way she addressed him...
They said nothing for the rest of the journey. Half the time it took to drink a cup of tea later, Black Abyss came into view.
Looking down from the sky, the so-called Black Abyss was simply a bottomless chasm. It was not particularly long, perhaps only a thousand li across, but eerie fog churned within it, impossible to perceive with the naked eye. Even divine sense encountered tremendous obstruction upon entering it, making it impossible to discern the details inside.
More than a dozen figures stood beside Black Abyss. At their head were two men, one with the bearing of an immortal sage, the other handsome as jade in the wind. They were none other than the realm's